Google Debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux

Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux on Thursday, but only in rough developer preview versions that the company warns are works in progress.

“In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux, but whatever you do, please don’t download them,” Google product managers Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg said in a blog post, evidently trying to use a little reverse psychology. “Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable and potentially crashing software…”